Page 10 of Surviving in Everton

I shake my head and roll my eyes at her.I can’t be mad at you for doing somethin’ I did. Now tell me about this whole feelins' thing. I demand.You can feel my feelins' too?

Yes, but it doesn’t always happen like that. You have to have a mind reading-esque powerandfind your soulmate. That’s why both of us can feel the other’s emotions, because we can both read minds. It’s kind of like an extension of the mind reading. She explains to me, still in my head. It’s kinda weird to be having an actual conversation with someone like this.

So if you couldn’t read minds you wouldn’t be able to feel me right now?I ask her and she nods and shrugs her shoulder in confirmation.

Exactly. It’s even rarer that two mind readers are soulmates, she smiles at me.

Wow.That’s all I can say.

She giggles at me in response. “Come on, let’s go home and I’ll tell you everything I know,” she suggests.

I smile and take her hand as we start heading back to the car, pink and purple bear in tow. “So your parents are soulmates, huh?” I ask her as we walk. She just nods so I ask my next question. “Which one of them can read minds?”

“My mom,” she answers with a smirk. Oh fuck. Well, it’s probably better than her dad…

She laughs at that. “Oh yeah, you’d be dead by now if that were the case.”

“Well, you could have warned me, ya know,” I retort. She just giggles at me again.

“I’m sorry, baby.” She bats her pretty eyes at me again. “Do you forgive me? I’ll do that thing you like…” she trails off suggestively.

In response, I throw her over my shoulder and take off for the car. Time to get my brat home. I think she needs some punishing.

“Oh god,” she moans in agreement.

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I comeout of the memory just as Rowen and Nate walk into the living room. I look around and everyone is giving Rowen heated looks. Knowing she just got off in the other room, tends to have that effect on us all, I suppose. When Rowe sees the guys’ faces, hers turns beet red.

“Ahem.” I cough. “Ummm, your bathroom isn’t exactly far away,a mhuirnín… and you were a little… distracted. So you didn’t shield your thoughts,” I admit that we all know what she was up to in the bathroom.

Nate attempts to make her less embarrassed, but it has the opposite effect. Really, he was just being a dick, rubbin’ it in that he was the one to get her off again. Hell, I’ve yet to get her off outside of text. I’m gonna need to rectify that soon.

Chapter 5

Rowen

We all meet Ayden in the kitchen, well except for Kayden, who goes to tell the kids the pizza is here. I’m feeling more myself after my alone time with Nate. It’s still amazing to me how each of these men make me feel. They just have a way of making everything better. Like I can deal with this tumor, as long as I have them by my side.

God, it was hard to eventhinkthat word. I don’t know what we’re gonna do. I say we because IknowI’m not in this by myself. It’s notjustmy problem. The guys are going to help me through this. We just have to figure out how.

“And we will,a mhuirnín,” Declan whispers in my ear then kisses my neck. When the hell did he sneak up on me? That gets a chuckle out of him as he walks away to fix a plate of pizza.

The guys and I are relatively quiet while eating, all of us listening to Violet tell a story about her day at school.

“I’ve been playing with my friend Emma, at school, and she’s kinda quiet and not as outgoing as I am. But I finally got her to play a game with me and Chloe today!” she tells us, bouncing in her seat.

“That’s great baby! What did you play? I wanna hear all about it!” I tell her with a smile that actually reaches my eyes. I love seeing my girl light up like this when she tells me stories.

“We played hopscotch!”

I can’t help but laugh. I remember when Quinn and I taught her that game. She loves playing that. “Did you cheat?” I ask her with a raised eyebrow.

She huffs at me. “That wasonetime Mommy! It wasn’t my fault the wind moved my rock,” she whines.

I chuckle. “Yeah, suuure it was thewind,” I tease her and she gives me some serious stink eye.

“Anyway…” she says, scowl still in place, “I taught Chloe and Emma how to play. It’s their new favorite game! Since we’re practicing our magic at school, we throw the rock with our magic. It’s pretty funny because sometimes, the rock goes a little too far or flies off to the side. Emma got pretty upset the first time she went because her rock didn’t land in a square. But I told her it was okay to get things wrong on her first try.

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